Brown
Brown v. Janssen Research & Development LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES JUDICIAL PANEL
on
MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION
IN RE: XARELTO (RIVAROXABAN)
PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION MDL No. 2592
(SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE)
CONDITIONAL TRANSFER ORDER (CTO —196)
On December 12, 2014, the Panel transferred 20 civil action(s) to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407. See 65 F.Supp.3d 1402 (J.P.M.L. 2014). Since that time, 708 additional action(s) have been transferred to the Eastern District of Louisiana. With the consent of that court, all such actions have been assigned to the Honorable Eldon E. Fallon. It appears that the action(s) on this conditional transfer order involve questions of fact that are common to the actions previously transferred to the Eastern District of Louisiana and assigned to Judge Fallon. Pursuant to Rule 7.1 of the Rules of Procedure of the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, the action(s) on the attached schedule are transferred under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 to the Eastern District of Louisiana for the reasons stated in the order of December 12, 2014, and,…